Alva Review-Courier -

I was glad to read the article in the Alva Review-Courier: "Masonic Pancake Benefit for AHS" (Nov 15 issue). It is great that the Masons (of which I am a fifth-generation member) are holding a benefit breakfast in which proceeds will help fund Alva students to take a trip to Washington, D.C., to tangibly learn about our nation's history up close and personal. I applaud that.

My connections to Alva run deep and, by coincidence, my own school principal in Kansas (where I grew up) was "Mister Mike Zakoura,” as students called him, but his father was the late Victor C. Zakoura, whom I knew also. I...